Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Cars - King Biscuit Flower Hour ~ El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 09-13-1979 (Pre-FM)

The Cars
King Biscuit Flower Hour
El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 13, 1978
Aired On October 13, 1978
Pre-FM Recording
MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

PRE-FM Reel > CDRW > WAV > CDWAV > mastercdr > wav > FLAC

01 Intro/Good Times Roll
02 Bye Bye Love
03 Nightspots*
04 Best Friend's Girl
05 Moving In Stereo
06 Since I Held You*
07 Take What You Want*
08 They Won't See You*
09 Don't Cha Stop
10 Just What I Needed
11 Candy-O*
12 You're All I 'Ve Got Tonight

*unreleased at the time

Ric Ocasek – rhythm guitar, lead and background vocals, synthesizer
Benjamin Orr (R.I.P) – bass guitar, lead and background vocals
Elliot Easton – lead guitar, background vocals
Greg Hawkes – keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, saxophone, bass guitar, background vocals
David Robinson – drums, percussion, background vocals

Nice Pre-FM recording from The Cars on tour to promote their debut album. The band performs tracks from the first album as well as tracks from the then unreleased Candy-O album and 2 outtakes from the first album "Take What You Want" and "They Won't See You". These tracks would go unreleased until the double CD remaster of The Cars LP. Benjamin Orr was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2000, he continued to play with his band Big People playing his last gig with them September 27, 2000. Ben passed away October 3, 2000 he was 53.


2 comments:

  1. I've got a Cars show from the Old Waldorf from the same year....if you're interested in it, I'll see if I can find it on the archived hard drive.

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  2. Thanks D! would love it! I have a lossy version at MP3 192kbps, will be emailing you tonight, to send you something as well...

    Dave

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